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    Hard Hat Riot

    Aired September 30, 2025 | 81 min

    Hard Hat Riot revisits New York in 1970, when student protestors against the Vietnam War violently clashed with construction workers, ushering in a new political and cultural divide that would redefine the American political landscape.

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    Clearing the Air: The War on Smog

    Aired August 26, 2025 | 52 min

    The story of L.A.’s devastating smog problem and the creation of the EPA and the Clean Air Act.

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    American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (español)

    Aired November 12, 2024 | 75 min

    La historia poco conocida de la fatal masacre racial y del golpe de estado de 1898 en Wilmington, NC.

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    American Coup: Wilmington 1898

    Aired November 12, 2024 | 75 min

    The little-known story of a deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’état in Wilmington, North Carolina, when white supremacists overthrew the multi-racial government of state’s largest city through a campaign of violence and intimidation.

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  • The Riot Report (español) poster image

    The Riot Report (español)

    Aired May 21, 2024 | 112 min

    Cuando una ola de violencia se apoderó de barrios negros por todo Estados Unidos en el verano de 1967, el presidente Johnson nombró una comisión para encontrar la causa de los disturbios. Sus hallazgos ofrecieron una evaluación honesta de las relaciones raciales estadounidenses.

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    The Riot Report

    Aired May 21, 2024 | 112 min

    When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence in the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed a commission to find the cause for the unrest. Their findings offered an unvarnished assessment of American race relations.

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  • Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal poster image

    Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal

    Aired April 22, 2024 | 112 min

    In the late 1970s, residents of Love Canal in Niagara Falls, NY discovered their neighborhood had been built on a former chemical waste dump. Housewives activated to create a grassroots movement that galvanized the landmark Superfund Bill.

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    The Bombing of Wall Street

    Aired February 13, 2018 | 60 min

    The story behind a mostly-forgotten 1920 bombing in the nation’s financial center that left 38 dead and remains unsolved today.

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    Oklahoma City

    Aired August 24, 2017 | 113 min

    Explores how a series of deadly encounters between American citizens and federal law enforcement — including the standoffs at Ruby Ridge and Waco — led to the the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history.

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    The Race Underground

    Aired November 12, 2019 | 53 min

    Learn how Boston overcame a litany of challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen, and the great fears of its citizenry to create America’s first subway.

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    Blackout

    Aired July 14, 2015 | 52 min

    What happened when the lights went out in New York City on July 13, 1977?

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  • The Rise and Fall of Penn Station poster image

    The Rise and Fall of Penn Station

    Aired February 18, 2014

    The Pennsylvania Railroad Company accomplished an enormous engineering feat, but destroyed a great architectural monument.

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